The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel84 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2002 The best Hesse's book + Most important fiction of the XXth Century? + His best work First time I read it when I was 15, and I thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. One has to be prepared to read this book and to be able to accept all: strange combination of math, music, language, different ideas, search for harmony. I reread this book every 2-3 years.             Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel9 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2003 Hesse's Master Work + Beautiful, profound, important + A psychological Jungian Bildungsroman disguised as a fairy tale + There are not eonough stars in the galaxy to rate this book + Perhaps Hesse's greatest novel. It's certainly my favorite.             The Magic Mountain84 reviews Thomas Mann Vintage, 1996 Death and Amusement in the Mountains + Unique in reading experiences + A great book but not for flatlanders The Magic Mountain is a renowned classic of twentieth century literature, especially German and European literature. As a book, it is moderate to easy to read, and I highly recommend the novel. It is easier to read than some of Mann's other works. I recently purchased and read this exact novel as ...             Illuminations: Essays and Reflections12 reviews Walter Benjamin Schocken, 1969 Just a quick note + Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels + Clarity and Brilliance + Brilliance + Indispensable reading             Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas3 reviews Arthur Schnitzler Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002 Illicit Love and Death in Imperial Vienna + Mind games + Reviewed Written in the late19th century, these stories show their age. They abound with high-class officers and lowly maidens. But in their careful search for thoughts and meanings, they presage Freudian analysis. In ?Night Games?, Lieutenant Willi Kasda has to come up with 1?000 gulden within 24 hours. ...             Gamailis,: And other tales from Stalin's Russia Vladimir Andreyev Regnery, 1963             Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend19 reviews Thomas Mann Vintage, 1999 Essential Reading for German Literary History + The best book i've read in my life!! + Magnificent + Useful information....or not. + A demanding and crucially important read             The Tin Drum90 reviews Gunter Grass Vintage, 1990 an imaginative and innovative novel + A fantastic read, but what does it all mean? + brilliant + Challenging But Worth It             Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years20 reviews Thomas Mann Vintage, 1992 Mann in a humorous vein + Aesthete's Gather Round, and enjoy this book + a prostitute ply her trade + A Cautionary Tale For The Pseudo-Intellectual + A Portrait of Narcissism             Man in the Holocene7 reviews Max Frisch Dalkey Archive Press, 2007 Superb + A Neglected Masterpiece + an astonishing and haunting work + Last Things + Weirdly comforting             The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian1 review Velimir Khlebnikov Harvard University Press, 1990 They don't write em like this anymore The King of Time is the best of that wacked out genre we call the manifesto. Khlebnikov imagines a future that is half socialist utopia, half bladerunner. The most outlandish idea might be the transparent glass spheres stacked up like bee hives in which we would live if old Velimir had his way. ...             The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails25 reviews Robert Musil Vintage, 1996 Expansive Literature + Pseudoreality 2008 + Book with qualities + Empricist Musil             Bachelors: Novellas and Stories2 reviews Arthur Schnitzler Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006 An excellent collection of short works, Bachelors narrows the focus with skill and outlines bachelor concerns with precision. + Surprises on Every Page: A Terrific Collection!!!!! Margret Schaefer here translates and gathers new novellas and stories from Arthur Schnitzler, whose works offer penetrating insights into the male psyche. No ordinary collection of fiction, each piece is as clear as a bell, as sparkling as a jewel in its penetrating analysis of male ambiguities, ...             Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider19 reviews Thomas Mann Everyman's Library, 2005 Challenging and Sublime + Cosmic Delight, Comic Gesture + AN OUTSTANDING BOOK + Beautiful! + Unsurpassed fiction, in any century!             Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies (German Expressionism) Frank Wedekind Calder Publications, 1980             Stories of Three Decades1 review Thomas Mann Modern Library, 1979 Each story is a masterpiece Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for "Buddenbrooks" and "The Magic Mountain"--both toweringly long novels of great complexity. These short stories, however, are as sharp and quick as a paring knife. Some of the stories are sketches for the monumental novels to come, such as "Tristan"--a satirical ...             I'm Not Stiller3 reviews Max Frisch Dalkey Archive Pr, 2006 My all time favorite book! + Im not me either. Are you? + I'm Not Miller For half of my life (i.e. for 18 years up to now), Max Frisch's "Stiller" - which I've read in German - has been my favorite book, closely followed by "Gantenbein" by the same author, and I'm sure it will keep so for the rest of my life. Why? Well, the "Stiller" is a very rich book with several ...             Young Torless (A Signet Classic # CT266) Robert Musil Signet / The New American Library, 1964 Vintage Paperback; 7" Tall x 4.2" Wide,             Billiards at Half-Past Nine6 reviews Heinrich Boll Avon Books (Mm), 1983 Gripping panorama of German life + A remarkable novel that wears its age well + Pervasively amazing + The precise symbolisim of breakfast.             The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (New York Review Books Classics)2 reviews Osip Mandelstam NYRB Classics, 2004 His poems living still + W. S. Merwin gives us a shockingly original Mandelstam MANDELSTAM We do not know the way to the darkness of the word or the excellent silence concealed inside our poems we only know the drumbeat of our own pain and the flickering madness of a land's best lights lost All we are and can be is a poem that will never come home again. ...